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G[(MS] olatiadensis] tahida Taverneb and Sotton, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xxiii, 



1934, 32 in text (sowthern race). 

 arus fratermlus Boucaed, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883, 461 (Tizimin, Yucatan). 

 Megalornis c.-woodi Bailey (H. H.), Bailey Mus. and Libr. Nat. Hist. BuU. 4, 



1930, [2] (Peninsula of Michigan). 



GRUS CANADENSIS PRATENSIS Merer 



Floeida Sandhill Cbane 



All plumages as in Grus canadeiii,is canadensis and Grus canadensis 

 tdbida, but larger than the former, and the adults with the occiput 

 and hind neck darker than the latter— light mouse gray to mouse 

 gray, instead of pallid to pale mouse gray. 



Adult male.— Wing 487-525 (507.2) ; tail 183-206 (191.7) ; exposed 

 eulmen 115-143 (130.6) ; tarsus 220-264 (251.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 77-86.5 (80.1 mm.).^« 



Adult female.— Wing 450-485 (473.4); tail 154-182 (170.5); ex- 

 posed eulmen 119-135.5 (125.1) ; tarsus 228-241 (235) ; middle toe 

 without claw 74^80 (76.6 mm.)." 



Range. — ^Resident in southern Georgia (Okefenokee Swamp) : 

 Florida (Micanopy; Waukeenah; Lake Monroe; Lake Kissimmee; 

 Micco; Fort Pierce; Daytona; Fort Myers; Charlotte Harbor; 

 Miakka ; Longwood ; Tarpon Springs ; Cedar Key ; Lake Wimlico ; De 

 Soto County); southern Alabama (Baldwin County; Perdido Bay; 

 Foley); and coastal Louisiana (Houma; Calcasieu Pass; Cameron 

 Parish ; Black Bayou ; Mer Rouge — in winter) . 



Casual in South Carolina (Waccamaw River; Sandy Knowe; be- 

 tween Punta Gorda and Fisheating Creek) ; Mississippi (Waverly, 

 winter) ; and Texas (Sabine Pass — in winter). 



Type locality. — ^Alachua Savanna, Clay County, Fla. 



Grus pratenMs Mbyee, Zool. Annal., i, 1794, 286, 296 (Florida; based ou Grvs 

 pratensis, corpore cinereo, vertice papilloso Bartram, Travels, 1791, 293). — 

 CouES, Check-list, ed. 2, 1882, No. 670, part (ex Bartram). — Ridoway, Cat. 

 Aquat. and Fish-eating Birds, 1883, 18, part. 



0[rus] pratensis Coubs, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2., 1884, 687, part. 



Grus canadensis pratensis Americait Oenitholoqists' Union, Check-list North 

 Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1931, 94.— Howell, Florida Bird Life, 1932, 197 (genl. ; 

 Florida). — Peteks, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 152. — Obeeholsek, 

 Bird Life Louisiana, 1938, 196 (rare, permanent resident in s.w. Louisi- 

 ana; breeding Cameron Parish, July 1919; formerly more numerous). — 

 McIlhennt, Auk, Iv, 1938, 598 (resident — Mississippi; nesting 7 miles 

 east of Ocean Springs). 



Megalornis canadensis pratensis Habtbrt, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1818 

 (crit.). — Peters, Auk, xlii, Jan. 1925, 121, 122 (crit. ; type locality fixed as 

 Clay County, Fla.).— Bailey and Weight, Wils. Bull,, xllii, 1931, 193 (s. 

 Louisiana; nesting, Cameron Parish, 1917). 



" Specimens from Florida (8) and Georgia (1). 

 1^ Eight specimens from Florida. 



